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A1520Assembly2017-2018 Session

Suspend Boating After License Loss

Official title

“Relates to suspension of a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and suspension of a person's vessel registration”

Sponsor Kenneth ZebrowskiAD-96+1 co-sponsorAffects Transportation
Status
In Assembly Committee
Transportation
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Transportation

What's happening

This bill requires courts to suspend the privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and possibly vessel registration when a driver's license is revoked or suspended for certain violations.

Why it matters

  1. Expands the consequences of certain driving offenses. If your driver’s license is suspended or revoked for violations under this article (such as DWI), you will also lose the right to operate a pleasure vessel (like a boat or jet ski), meaning penalties now extend beyond just driving.

  2. Potential loss of vessel registration. Courts are given the discretion to suspend not just your operating privileges, but also to suspend your vessel’s registration, increasing the impact on those who own and use pleasure vessels.

  3. Reinforces the connection between road and waterway safety. By linking driving offenses with boating privileges, the law aims to deter dangerous behavior across different types of vehicles, signaling that reckless conduct on the road can affect your ability to enjoy recreational boating.

  4. Automatic reinstatement after penalty period. Once your suspension or revocation period ends, your ability to operate a pleasure vessel and register a vessel is restored, ensuring the punishment is temporary but significant.

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Suspend Boating After License Loss

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Kenneth Zebrowski

Assembly Member · Assembly District 96

1 Co-sponsor

History

  1. Referred to transportation
  2. Referred to transportation

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1520

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 12, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension of a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and suspension of a person's vessel registration

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:

3. Suspension of the privilege to operate a pleasure vessel. A court shall, upon revocation or suspension of a person's motor vehicle license as a result of a violation of this article, suspend a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and may suspend such person's vessel registration in accordance with section forty-nine-a of the navigation law. Following the period of revocation or suspension imposed by the court, a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and vessel registration shall be reinstated.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD04631-01-7

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